LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Sure, I watched from the primary pitch to the ultimate pitch, the one Alex Bregman lined to left-middle subject to carry the Houston Astros previous the Los Angeles Dodgers at 1:38 (EDT) a.m. Monday.

I’m not flipping my bat. I’m simply blaming Recreation 5 of the World Collection for the belated look of the Monday Muse.

Earlier than we get to Recreation Six (Tuesday at eight p.m. on WDRB), let’s cowl some school soccer, school basketball, NBA, school soccer, baseball and one query Louisville soccer followers are asking.

1. Monday Sirmon

Round Louisville, the talk has raged round fired athletic director Tom Jurich and males’s basketball coach Rick Pitino and what number of dollars the varsity will finally pay each males for not requiring their providers.

There’s one other contract stirring ire and questions inside the Louisville fan base – the three-yr deal that coach Bobby Petrino and Jurich gave Peter Sirmon to exchange Todd Grantham because the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator after final season.

The efficiency of the Louisville protection is an inexpensive place to ask what Petrino and Jurich have been considering once they awarded a beneficiant contract to Sirmon final winter.

They gave him a pay increase of almost 50 % over what Sirmon earned final season at Mississippi State, the place his unit ranked one hundred and tenth in complete protection and 93rd in scoring protection. His contract is thru Jan. 31, 2020. He’s scheduled to earn $950,000, plus additional advantages this season. Some hires work. Some do not. Making Sirmon the man could be defended. However making him the man at that worth wants extra rationalization now that it did when the deal went down.

The Sirmon transfer has grow to be a much bigger head-scratcher than the increase and extension Jurich awarded Petrino in 2016, following seasons of 9-four and eight-5 after returning to U of L from Western Kentucky.

That was a deal pitched as projecting stability and power however there was little purpose to consider one other program was angling to recruit Petrino after the circumstances of his departure from Arkansas.

Underneath Sirmon, the Cardinals’ defensive factors per recreation have climbed from 23.eight final season to 30.eight this season, whereas the yards per recreation complete has jumped from 322.2 to 410.1. Picked to complete third within the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Convention, the Cardinals are tied for final with Florida State.

Are you able to think about the dialogue if this rent had been made by Steve Kragthorpe?

Beneficiant buyouts and jumbo raises have develop into the craze in school sports activities….